Entering the Wild features the work of five California artists who share a reverence for the natural world, and specifically for the animal kingdom. Each artist engages the viewer in a conversation about mankind’s relationship to nature and the possibilities of developing a deeper relationship with and understanding of our wild neighbors. On view are sculptures and drawings by Jane Rosen, black and white photography by Lukas Felzmann and Richard Whittaker, photographic and video installations by Trish Carney, and mixed media installations by Adriane Colburn. Curated by Anne Veh. (image: Lukas Felzman, Swarm, 2011)

Di Rosa’s New Work series offers the public an opportunity to encounter new and recent works by important Bay Area artists. As a painter, Hung Liu challenges the documentary authority of historical Chinese photographs by subjecting them to a more reflective process of painting. Much of the meaning of her painting comes from the way the washes and drips dissolve the documentary images, suggesting the passage of memory into history, while working to uncover the cultural and personal narratives fixed–but often concealed–in the photographic instant.  She has written: “I want to both preserve and destroy the image.” …read more

Looking at You Looking at Me brings together an intriguing group of artworks from the di Rosa collection that provokes conversation about the ways we look at each other, the implications of being the subject of a gaze, and the role of art in this complex interplay. Featuring photography, video, sculpture, painting, and electronic constructions by Robert Arneson, Anthony Aziz, Leon Borensztein, Bruce Cannon, Carter, Van Deren Coke, Marque Cornblatt, Judy Dater, Viola Frey, Jack Fulton, Michael Garlington, George Herms, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Larry Jordan, leonardogillesfleur, Judy Malloy, Alan Rath, Rigo 23, and Michael Stevens. (image: Jack Fulton, Out Front, 1968/2001. Digital prints from scanned 1968 images. Gift of Phyllis Wattis.)…read more

Zombie-Proof House is a meditation on anxiety and hope in a troubled time. This major group exhibition, organized by di Rosa curator Robert Wuilfe, explores recent history and potential futures as they relate to collapse, political upheaval and shared responsibility. Taking its tongue-in-cheek title from the recent predominance of zombies in language and pop culture, the exhibition approaches seemingly insurmountable issues with a sometimes darkly humorous sensibility. Artists include: Anthony Discenza, HalfLifers (Torsten Z. Burns and Anthony Discenza), Suzanne Husky, Inka Hoots (Joshua Short and Joel Dean Stockdill), Packard Jennings, Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, Whitney Lynn, Julio Cesar Morales, Lucy Puls, and Carol Selter. …read brochure

Reconstructed World focuses on the work of artists who draw viewers into complex narrative tableaux through recreating and restaging sites, objects, and stories. Rather than striving for perfect realism or objective documentation, these projects side-step traditional representation for a more uncanny and ultimately affective experience. The projects in the exhibition utilize a range of media that include animated video, assemblage, constructed photographs and installation to evoke realities beneath the perceived surface of the everyday. Artists in the exhibition include: Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet, Keith Cottingham, Kota Ezawa, Al Farrow, Samara Halperin, leonardogillesfleur, Liz Hickok, and Tracey Snelling. (image: Kota Ezawa, Beatles Über California (still), 2010; single-channel video with sound, 3:27 min.)…read brochure

Enrique Chagoya: Surviving Paradise/Sobreviviendo el Paraíso featured new and significant recent work by the artist highlighting cross-border themes that he has explored throughout his artistic career: immigration, colonization, political struggle, economics and cultural imposition. Through masterful drawings, prints, books and editioned objects, Chagoya brings an analytical and often darkly humorous eye to bear on the world around us. (image: Illegal Alien’s Guide to Somewhere Over the Rainbow, 2010, lithograph, TP. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Paule Anglim)…read brochure



Visitors got a sneak peek at works in the live and silent auctions, including  renowned Bay Area artists such as: James Barsness, Chester Arnold, John Casey, Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel, Deborah Oropallo, Maria Porges, Rex Ray, Walter Robinson, Travis Somerville, Catherine Wagner, William Wiley and many more. Bidding began October 1 at the Preview Party and ended at the main event October 16th. (image: Jason Jagel, My Fingers Weigh a Ton, 2009, gouache and pencil on paper. Courtesy of the artist)

POMP featured a range of new work by Deborah Oropallo, including pieces from her Guise and Wild Wild West series where she addresses the issue of adornment, pageantry, and costume. The Guise series is focused on 17^th century portraits of aristocrats, emperors, and kings mingled with erotic costumes found on the web, while her Wild Wild West work plays on collective notions of American West pop mythology. (image: Blue Belle, 2 of 6, 2010, tapestry. Courtesy of the artist and Magnolia Editions, Oakland)…read more

di Rosa’s Biennial MFA exhibition presented a juried selection of artists who recently completed their Master’s of Fine Art degrees at Bay Area art schools and colleges, featuring Carina Baumann, Joanne Hashitani, Aaron Maietta, Leigh Merrill, Sandra Ono, S. Patricia Patterson, Josh Short, Gina Tuzzi, Jina  Valentine, Andrew  Witrak. (image: Andrew Witrak, Everything Passing Over My Head, 2009, looped 4 minute video. Courtesy of the artist)…read more

An exhibition of artworks related to the mystical, the transcendent and the transformative. Among the many themes embedded in the di Rosa’s extensive collection, featuring artists Lynne-Rachel Altman, Jim Campbell – Bruce Conner, Linda Connor, Lewis deSoto, Robilee Frederick, David Ireland, Keira Kotler, Thérèse Lahaie, Richard Misrach, Robert Moon, David Simpson, Travis Somerville, Elisabeth Sunday, Michele Théberge, Darren Waterston. (image: Bruce Conner, Teardrop Angel, 1974, gelatin silver print photogram. Di Rosa collection)…read more

Mike Henderson shares new expressive, gestural abstract paintings that, like the blues and jazz music he also creates, fully engage viewers both physically and intellectually. Working both with and beyond the tradition of Abstract Expressionism, Henderson improvises with oil paint in a visual equivalent to the musical improvisations he crafts with his guitar…read more